Mighty be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War

by Leymah Gbowee

Carol Mithers (Secondary Author)

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WINNER OF THE 2011 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

In a time of death and terror, Leymah Gbowee brought Liberia's women together-and together they led a nation to peace.

As a young woman, Leymah Gbowee was broken by the Liberian civil war, a brutal conflict that tore apart her life and claimed the lives of countless relatives and friends. Years of fighting destroyed her country-and shattered Gbowee's girlhood hopes and dreams. As a young mother trapped in a nightmare of domestic abuse, she found the courage to turn her bitterness into action, propelled by her realization that it is women who suffer most...

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  • ISBN10 0984295151
  • ISBN13 9780984295159
  • Publish Date 13 September 2011 (first published 1 January 2011)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Out of Print 9 December 2014
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Beast Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 256
  • Language English
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